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How you can benefit from Mindfulness Meditation practice
I have written extensively about the benefits of Mindfulness Meditation practice in various articles on my website. Perhaps you have read some of them, perhaps you have never gone there to have a look? Either way, I want to provide…
Single or Married; which is better?
Single or Married; which is better? Good question perhaps, but does it have an answer? Research comparing the physical and mental health of people who are married with those who are not appears to indicate that there is an answer…
Depression and Heart Failure
When we talk about the heart and matters of the heart, language is ambiguous. Sometimes we refer to the fist-size muscle in the chest. Other times we refer to a centre of feelings. And rarely would we be referring to…
Sleep problems, and their implications
How is your sleep? Are you sleeping as well as you would like to do? Are you tired through the day, due to never really getting quite the sleep quality you would like? Do you sometimes (or regularly) resort to…
Mindfulness; current research findings
The benefits from developing mindfulness skills is continuing to be demonstrated by scientific research projects all over the world. I have recently published an article on my website, in which I summarise a few interesting research findings from the past…
Mindfulness research findings
Scientific mindfulness research findings continue to demonstrate how this ancient practice can have various beneficial effects. This article summarises mindfulness research findings that show that mindfulness practice reduces the risk for heart attacks, that it increases working memory capacity and…
Interesting benefits from mindfulness meditation
Commonly, when people wish to explore the benefits from mindfulness meditation, it is because they want to be able to slow down their minds that otherwise typically seem to run wild most of the day, so that they can have…
Mindfulness and Chronic Pain; research findings
Acute pain relating to tissue injury (caused by trauma, or by surgery) is one of the most frequent reasons why patients are seeking medical care, and pain is the most common complaint in primary care overall. While most patients who…
Treating depression – a case for psychotherapy
Feeling down and sad for a long time, feeling hopeless and worthless, finding it difficult to enjoy anything in life including that you used to enjoy before, struggling to make up your mind even about minor things, feeling fatigued a…
Anti-depressants for depression? A critical question.
According to the World Health Organisation depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, and yet only 25% of sufferers have access to effective treatments [Ref. 1]. The first-line medical treatment for people meeting current diagnostic criteria for…
Depression – causes, symptoms, treatments
According to the World Health Organisation depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Over the course of a lifetime 16% of the population will at some time be diagnosed with depression, and in any given year 7%…
Mindfulness practice can help you quit smoking – research report
Nearly half of all adult smokers attempt to quit smoking each year, but the majority of quit smoking attempts are unsuccessful. To quit smoking is a significant stress factor, which can cause irritability, disturbed sleep and other withdrawal symptoms that…
